European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 31, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 feeling bullish App am Stock trader Dot will Nibby wort pair at horns on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange in sin Francisco. The vain of he nation s Stock portfolio do swelled by More than $275 billion since Jin. 1. Aids May become history s worst killer Washington a a worldwide aids epidemic will become so be Riou that it will Dwarf such earlier medical disaster As the Black plague smallpox find typhoid the nation s health chief Laid thursday. You Haven t heard or read anything yet health and human services Secre tary Otis r. Bowen told a National press club audience. If we can t make Prog Ress we face the dreadful Prospect of a worldwide death Oil in the Lens of Mil Lions a decade from  listing other diseases that have killed millions of people Over the years Bowen said aids will make these other ones Pale by comparison he said he is confident that a vaccine Wilt be found but i equally sure that it will not be in time to head off an epidemic of a scope that most people have not yet grasped. Noting that there is no known cure Bowen said 50 million to 100 million people worldwide could have aids in the next two decades and that at least 270,000 cases Are expected in the United states alone in live years with More than 10 percent of he new cases by then being among heterosexuals. Between i million and 1.5 million americans Are now believed to be carry ing the virus that makes them susceptible to developing the disease. No one really knows How Many since aids is spread by people free of symptoms and we Don t yet have a comprehensive National pro Gram to provide blood tests that identify aids carriers said Bowen. Bowen he said researchers do nol know the incubation period but have established that a Carrier can spread it soothers and nol know in for 10 years or  so remember when a person has sex they re not just having it with thai part Ner they re having it with everybody that partner had it with for the past 10 years said Bowen. Educating the Public about How to prevent ajd5 remains the Best weapon against its spread id Bowen acknowledging that the Effort has provoked in share of  Gray Market controls sought . Won f Block airing of amerika Washington a americans have been increasingly importing Gray Market luxury cars from Britain Germany and Sweden into the United states creating a need for further government controls the Genera accounting office said thursday. It said the number of Gray Market vehicles coming into the United states jumped from about 2,400 in 1980 la 66,900 in l985. Gray Market cars Are those made for a foreign country rather than modified by the manufacturer to meet . Specifications. Importers of these aulos must agree to modify the vehicles to meet . Standards within a specified Lime and Post Bonds until the work is done. The main agencies responsible for Selling and enforcing standards for the vehicles Are the National Highway traffic safety administration and the environmental Protection Agency. The Gao said the Gray Market program lacks sufficient internal controls to ensure that imported Gray Market vehicles Are modified to meet . Safely and emission  the report recommended that Nitsa should improve controls Over its program by establishing a pro Cess already used by Epa whereby firm Are certified As being capable of properly modifying Gray Market aulos. Also it said the Agency should periodically a inspect the firms to make sure they Are per forming modification work properly. 1 St class passenger loses toilet dispute san Francisco a a Federal judge thurs Day threw out a counter suit filed by a Man found to have harassed a coach passenger trying to use the first class bathroom on a jetliner leaving him and his Law yers with no wins in three lawsuits Over the incident and also leaving him $i2.9so poorer Wellington Stephens of new York a first class Pas Senger on a Twa flight from new York to san fran Cisco in april 1985, got upset when he saw sue Vaccaro of Emeryville calif., a coach passenger approaching the same bathroom he was headed for. Vaccara who had been directed to first class by a flight attendant because the aisles in the coach Section were blocked by food carts said Stephens shouted at her using racial slurs and shoved her away from the bathroom before entering. Stephens denied her account but a . District court jury this month awarded Vaccaro $5,000 As the victim of assault and Battery intentional infliction of emotional distress slander and negligence plus $3,000 in punitive damages. The jury rejected Stephens county suit claiming she caused him to be wrongfully arrested when the plane landed in san Francisco. A second Caunt Carsuit fared even worse. In it Stephens contended his first class ticket gave him a Legal right to use the first class bathroom and that Vaccaro trespassed on that right by obstructing his Access. . District judge Samuel Conti dismissed the counter suit before the Case went to trial saying he doubted Stephens had any such right and that in any Case he had not been impeded. Conti also ruled that the counterclaim was frivolous and that Stephens lawyers from the prominent san Francisco firm of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison Vio lated their Legal duty by filing it. He ordered the Law yers to pay Vaccaro 14,980 for her costs in defending against the counter suit. Rod Mcleod a lawyer for Stephens declined com ment. United nations a the United nation will not seek a court order to Block Abc to from showing the ministries amerika said Theodore c. Sorenson who is representing the United nations in Legal wrangling with the network the emphasis is now on damage limitation rather than forcing the network to delete unauthorized Dis play of  insignias and flags said Sorensen. He did nol preclude other Legal action. "1 simply do not believe that an injunction against Abc preventing this show would succeed because of the network s first amendment rights said Sorensen a former special counsel to president Kennedy the 1411-hour series scheduled to air feb. 15-22. Depicts life in the United slates 10 years after soviet backed troops posing As . Peacekeepers Engineer a bloodless takeover. Sorensen Laid the program s use of the . Flag and Emblem for commercial purposes without the authorisation is illegal under International Law. Sorensen described his negotiations with Abc to a group called the and hoc committee on the Abc series amerika " made up of various religious and non governmental .-affiliated organizations. Because the program is to be aired soon the . Will not ask Abc to edit the United nation out of the show Sorensen told committee members. Instead he said he Hopes Abc will recognize in responsibility Loai least offset the damage it is going to be causing the United  2 Princeton clubs con bar women judge rules Trenton . T p Princeton University s two All male eating cubs do not have to admit women providing they liver their lies from the school an administrative Law judge said in a ruling received by lawyers thursday. The private clubs the Ivy club and the Tiger inn do not have to offer a membership to Sally Frank. The Princeton graduate who has been fighting the All male clubs since 1979, when she was a Junior said judge Robert s. Miller. However Miller said the clubs should pay Frank 12,500 in damages. Miller s ruling is nol final and must still be re viewed by Pamela Post director of the state division of civil rights. Post has 4$ Days to uphold modify or reject Miller s ruling. We re very Happy with the decision said Barbara Nelson who represented the Ivy gub and the Tiger inn. Frank said she is disappointed and believes it is unrealistic to think the eating clubs can sever their ties when they Are such an integral pan of University life at the Ivy league school. Frank who is now teaching at Antioch la school said she ill file papers vigorously opposing Miller s ruling. Social life at Princeton University which began admitting women in 1969, revolves around five selective and eight open eating clubs where most juniors and seniors Lake their meals. Students pay $2,400 to j2,900 in annual fees and there is a com petition to win an invitation to join clubs. Justin Harmon a spokesman for the University declined comment on Milter s ruling. Princeton University originally was named in a Law suit filed by Frank against the clubs but was dropped last summer when ii agreed to pay her 127,500 in Legal fees and disassociate itself from the clubs